The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-14
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
Specially Compiled for the Toilers by an 4
vooate Man.

Specially Compiled for the Toilers by an Ad
vOcats Man.
zOrganize, agitate aud educate, and d,
IL well.
&c., loaded coal cars passed over the
L. V. R r. during April.
Work thfoughoutthe valley is booming
No man needs necessarily be idle.
The Unicorn silk mill, at Catasauqua,
gives employment to two hundred hands.
MANY new enterprises are being es.
tabished in this State on the cooperative
basis.
"A branch of the Railroad Brakenan's
Brotherhood was organized at White Hav-
en- last week.
About the only rolling ihill in The
Lehigh Valley not now running is located
at Weissport.
The employees Of the Lehlgh Stove
works, here, are still out. They win hot
work on bOycotted patterns. ..i.
/ Car couplings are responsible for two
thousand; six hundred and twenty deaths
and nineteen thousand three hundred In,
jurles during 1886. .--c,..., -. ---'
-Correspondence to- this column solicit
led II you have anything Of interest to the
ttoilersesends sit to 4ESbHt Edltor,p care of
trADvocXTE, Eelfg6t0n. AhO
n'f1- Miners IN thes coke .regions are deter
mined 70 stay out sin months Unnecessary
I EtossecuFa their demands for an Increase in
the present rate OF wages paid.
- Do not strikel The miners of the
Ianthracite coal region cannot. afford TO turn
out At tllls period, logical Feasbhing will
convince them of this fact. The various
coal companies claim to have on hand
suficiht coal to supply the greatest possible
demand for tile next two months. This
will Keep the anthracite tilters out for
that length OF time, ut least. Can they
stand itP Most Of them deal at company
stores and i've in company houses; when
the strike comBehees then credit Ceases !.
theu how long will it take the coal corpora
tion to score another vietoryp Do not strike
new, it Is not the right tltnel
The Knights OF Labor assemblies of
Pottsviile are engaged in a very good work,
and one worthy of emulation in other towns
IN county and State. They have established
reading room and keep on file the lead
ing publications, to which will be added
from time various works. Upon Industrial
aud ecoEothtc Questions calculated to
grouhd the members in The just principles
af industrial and social reform. Besides
this, literary association is connected
with the order, and members are assigned
various tasks In line of instruction ana
entertainment. The order comprises in
Its membership many members abundantly
able to perform the duties allotted them
with benefit to all who have the pleasure
Of hearing. One feature OF the nndertak-
ing should not be overlooked. "How shall
we keep the young men out of the saloons9''
has been vexed question In various re-
ligious gatherings for years back, and the
solution is not yet reached. The presence
of scores of young men of Pottsville in the
K. of l.. reading room proves that this
order is, to a certain extent, quietly settling
this question in its. own way. May Its
usefulness grow.
I: John Swinton, of SwinTon's Herald, |
New gYoris, uses bitter language In his |
charges against Henry Georges friends
who manage the Land and Labor party.
He alleges that they are antagonistic TO all
WHO will not take out Ave dollar charter |
for &ilahd and labor club, and that these |
cfibs' are not agents of cooperation but
eleMents of disunion in the labor reform
movement of the country. He declares |
that the George party in New York is |
run by ring managers who have adopted |
the policy of rule or ruin after having
failed in the role of dog in the manger.
He ascribes the conduct of the Land and |
Labor committeeman to jealousy OF the
successes of the Union Labor organization
in Ohio, Kansas, Wisconsin aud Michigan.
Mr.. Swinton's expressions do not Indicate
that extreme desire to conciliate the alb
sence of which he SO severely condemns in
the doings of the Land and Labor managers.
Histmost forcible point Is the claim that
Mr., Georges friends subordinate the inter-
ests of labor on matters regarding which
all agree to the doctrine of denial of
Individual land ownhrship, from which
many members of workmen's S organizations
dissent.